Improvement in chtjhns



CQSWEENEY.

Churn.

Patented Dec. 22, 1868.

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CHARLES SWEENEY, OF EAST BLOOMFIELD, NEW YORK. Lmm Patent No. 85,187, datgene, 186s.

IMPRO'VEhIENT IN CHUR-NS.

Be it known that I, OHARLEsISWEENEnof East Bloomfield, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Ohurn; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification, in-which the ii gure is a vertical view of a'churn, with a side elevation of the dasher, with my improvementattached.-

The nature of my invention Wilibe understood from the drawings and specifications,

To enable others skilled inthe art to make'and use my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

I Vattach a spiral spring, H, tothe dasher B of a common churn. The spring H is confined between the washer ,C and the cover A of the churn. In the dasher. a. series of holes, c, is made, through whicha pin, al, is put above the washer C, so that the dasher maybe adjusted to suit the depthof cream in the churn, which is very desirable.

The object of my invention is to improve thecommon flasher-churn, and produce a cheap means of aid ing the operator,

The operation is as foilows;

The creai'nv being put into the churn', the cover with the dasher is then put on; it being importantto give a proper length to the flasher, so that if asxnall .quantity of cream is used, the spring will not force the dasher of" the dasher, which lengthens the spring, and allowsY the dasher to go down to the bottom of vthe churn.

When itis required to collect the butter, the washer is forced down on the dasher, and the pin putthrough a hole near the cover, which keeps the dasher from going down as far 'as required in churning the butter. By this means the` cream is not so much vagitated (which is adesirable point) in collecting the butter.

' -The spring also assists the operator in raising the flasher.

. I do not Yclaim an adj nstables'pring for churn-dashers, when the adjustment is eiected by means of a collar and a set-screw, as shown in -the patent of John M. Buell, August. 7, 1860, which arrangement of devices soon makes the flasher-rod very rough and disagreeable Vto handle, by the indentations and ruptures in the surface of the rod, unavoidabiy produced by the setscrew; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

JThe adjusting-pine, receiving holes cin the dasherrodB, in combination with the collar O, spring H, and head for the purposesrset forth.

Nitnesses CHARLES SWEENEY.

GEO. A. GAGE, JAS. L. GAGE. 

